LashL
Goddess of Legaltainment™
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I've had similar experiences out at my cottage on Lake Erie, going back several years now. It hasn't happened recently, but it happened with some regularity with my older cell phones between approximately 2000 - 2004. In my case, it wasn't "Welcome to 'Location X' messages (but I don't recall those being in place or at least being common until perhaps 2005 or so?) but rather it was receiving bills for long distance calls being made from places that I wasn't actually at.
My cottage is on the Ontario, Canada side of Lake Erie and when I'm out at the cottage, I typically use my cell phone. Between (approximately) 2000 and 2004, every once in a while, even though I'd made 'local' calls on my cell phone, I would get a long distance bill indicating that I'd made the calls from Erie, Pennsylvania in the U.S. - some 75 or 80 kilometers away as the crow flies, and much further than that if one was traveling by road. Erie, PA is across Lake Erie (not directly but diagonally) from my cottage.
Every time that happened, I would call up the cell phone company and explain that, no, I wasn't in Erie, PA but at my cottage near Peacock Point, Ontario and they would reverse the charges, but it happened several times. For some reason, the phone would sometimes pick up an Erie, PA cell tower instead of one that was physically much, much closer to my actual location. I have no idea why, but obviously (to me) it certainly happens, and I agree, therefore, that a single experiment at a single point in time cannot possibly be conclusive on the issue.
My cottage is on the Ontario, Canada side of Lake Erie and when I'm out at the cottage, I typically use my cell phone. Between (approximately) 2000 and 2004, every once in a while, even though I'd made 'local' calls on my cell phone, I would get a long distance bill indicating that I'd made the calls from Erie, Pennsylvania in the U.S. - some 75 or 80 kilometers away as the crow flies, and much further than that if one was traveling by road. Erie, PA is across Lake Erie (not directly but diagonally) from my cottage.
Every time that happened, I would call up the cell phone company and explain that, no, I wasn't in Erie, PA but at my cottage near Peacock Point, Ontario and they would reverse the charges, but it happened several times. For some reason, the phone would sometimes pick up an Erie, PA cell tower instead of one that was physically much, much closer to my actual location. I have no idea why, but obviously (to me) it certainly happens, and I agree, therefore, that a single experiment at a single point in time cannot possibly be conclusive on the issue.
